Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell, Volume 2William Beattie Harper & brothers, 1850 - 479 pages |
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... never making distinctions . An illness might be intolerably troublesome , without being dangerous ; yet you all set me down as very ill . Before Matilda's arrival , I had a world of troubles . Mrs. Drake advised us to go to a boarding ...
... never making distinctions . An illness might be intolerably troublesome , without being dangerous ; yet you all set me down as very ill . Before Matilda's arrival , I had a world of troubles . Mrs. Drake advised us to go to a boarding ...
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... never carried into effect . In his letters from Ratisbon , the reader may remember his having been courteously received by General Moreau , and pre- sented to his " young and beautiful wife . " That lady was now in London ; and Campbell ...
... never carried into effect . In his letters from Ratisbon , the reader may remember his having been courteously received by General Moreau , and pre- sented to his " young and beautiful wife . " That lady was now in London ; and Campbell ...
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... never been as a con- queror . At intervals , he gave us several Polish songs , which , at the lady's request , he translated . The sentiments of love , war , devotion , with their peculiar customs , were not always the most delicate ...
... never been as a con- queror . At intervals , he gave us several Polish songs , which , at the lady's request , he translated . The sentiments of love , war , devotion , with their peculiar customs , were not always the most delicate ...
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... never paid fourteen shillings for a dinner with more pleasure . It was equal to any at Lord Holland's table - a pro- fusion of luxuries and fruits fit to pall an epicure . After dinner we repaired to the Opera - a set of silly things ...
... never paid fourteen shillings for a dinner with more pleasure . It was equal to any at Lord Holland's table - a pro- fusion of luxuries and fruits fit to pall an epicure . After dinner we repaired to the Opera - a set of silly things ...
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... never change knives ; a thou- sand things revolt an Englishman ; but they are cheap , civil , and accommodating . " I forgot to say that , the day before I began to keep the house , I saw the delivery of the Standards , in the Champs ...
... never change knives ; a thou- sand things revolt an Englishman ; but they are cheap , civil , and accommodating . " I forgot to say that , the day before I began to keep the house , I saw the delivery of the Standards , in the Champs ...
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Page 497 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 466 - The eclipse of Nature spreads my pall, The majesty of darkness shall Receive my parting ghost! This spirit shall return to Him Who gave its heavenly spark; Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim When thou thyself art dark! No! it shall live again, and shine In bliss unknown to beams of thine, By Him recalled to breath, Who captive led captivity, Who robbed the grave of victory, And took the sting from death!
Page 497 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 174 - But the day-star attracted his eye's sad devotion, For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean, Where once, in the fire of his youthful emotion, He sang the bold anthem of Erin go bragh. Sad is my fate...
Page 465 - Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair ? Then bind the palm, thy sage's brow to suit, Of blasted leaf, and death-distilling fruit ! Ah me ! the laurell'd wreath that Murder rears, Blood-nursed, and water'd by the widow's tears, Seems not so foul, so tainted, and so dread, As waves the night-shade round the sceptic head.
Page 407 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below, As they roar on the shore When the stormy tempests blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow.
Page 16 - Any train of conversation he follows implicitly ; any thing you ask, he labors with a sort of boyish earnestness to explain, I was anxious to get from him as many particulars as I could about his interview with Buonaparte. The latter, it was reported, had astonished him by his astronomical knowledge. " No," he said, " the First Consul did surprise me by his quickness and versatility on all subjects ; but in science he seemed to know little more than any well-educated gentleman ; and of astronomy...
Page 77 - But years more gloomy follow'd, and no more The assembled people dared in face of day To worship God, or even at the dead Of night, save when the wintry storm raved fierce, And thunder-peals...
Page 88 - His mildness in literary argument struck me with surprise in so stern a poet of nature, and I could not but contrast the unassumingness of his manners with the originality of his powers. In what may be called the ready-money smalltalk of conversation, his facility might not perhaps seem equal to the known calibre of his talents; but in the progress of conversation I recollect remarking that there was a vigilant shrewdness that almost eluded you by keeping its watch so quietly. Though an oldish man...
Page 45 - I could have compass'd sea and land To do her bidding. Lady. Is she young or old ? Page. Neither, if right I guess ; but she is fair, For Time hath laid his hand so gently on her, As he, too, had been awed.